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Ossuary is half off! Just like your flesh. Your naked bones will be BEAUTIFUL.

The sale ends Dec. 3, ...

Happy November! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online.

We cover a bunch of fun things:

• Our ongoing community survey over at futureproofgames.com/2019survey! Help spread the word and get the survey out to folks you know. Taking the survey gets you a copy of ...

In writing for Exploit: Zero Day, we need to have characters using hacking techniques that aren't too far off what we think is possible. Thing is, neither of us are (or have ever been) hackers.

I (Melissa), however, have some specific sources I use to seed ideas for tactics characters might use: cybersecurity news.

It sounds boring, like reading dry academic papers of new tweaks on cryptographic techniques. Or ho-hum, like yet another hospital attacked with ransomware.

But not only are there some unusual events going on, there are also witty commentary, well-crafted journalism, and surprisingly science fictiony techniques at play. It's pretty fascinating to keep up on, even if you aren't specifically writing in the cyberpunk genre.

So here's where I get my news in a pretty low-key way:

We’ve updated  Exploit: Zero Day  to 0.47.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:

• System cost is now updated in real-time when adding linked nodes (original report)
• Systems should no longer overlap the edit toolbar at maximum size (original report)
• Jobs can ...

We're back in action! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online.

We cover a few topics:

• Our community survey is out! It's the first time we've done a wide push to get advice and feedback of this sort, and we appreciate everyone who fills it ...

We're still learning how to update our fans and let new folks know about our work. We figure you might know better than us, so we've set up a survey to get your feedback!

If you can spare a few minutes, please answer a few questions about our work and ...

It ended up taking longer than we expected, but we've just released the first version of "Cultivating Insurgency"! It's free to download for PC, Mac, and Linux.

"Cultivating Insurgency" is a little run-based, turn-based strategy game we started for LOWREZJAM 2019 where you play guerrilla gardeners fighting cops ...

We’ve updated  Exploit: Zero Day  to 0.46.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:

• The homepage will now showcase some publicly available systems! Even if you don't have an account yet, you can play them.
• The cluster and system lists now show creators' names.

If you ...

We won't be officially submitting "Cultivating Insurgency" to LOWREZJAM 2019 today, but we've made awesome progress. There's just one more mechanic we think it needs in order to convey the core conceit of the game, so we'll be releasing something within the next week or so.

Until then, ...

We're in the middle of taking part in LOWREZJAM 2019, a fun game jam where all the projects have to be at a resolution of 64x64 or less. That's a wildly small resolution; if you don't scale it up, it ends up looking this small:

As you can see, ...